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NEWS: 'How much heavy dumbbells can you lift?' TV Anime Casts Shizuka Ishigami, Nao Tōyama




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Rosiero



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:20 pm Reply with quote
Oh huh, Stella and Shizuku from Chivalry are reunited.
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Chrno2



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:25 pm Reply with quote
Wait we actually have an anime dedicated to "Lunks" now?

Oh Japan never ceases to amaze.
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Heishi



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:44 pm Reply with quote
Chrno2 wrote:
Wait we actually have an anime dedicated to "Lunks" now?

Oh Japan never ceases to amaze.


The question remains: Will this show fulfill the desires and fantasies of those who love muscular women?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:42 pm Reply with quote
Heishi wrote:
Chrno2 wrote:
Wait we actually have an anime dedicated to "Lunks" now?

Oh Japan never ceases to amaze.


The question remains: Will this show fulfill the desires and fantasies of those who love muscular women?


Are they out there?
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Heishi



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:36 pm Reply with quote
Chrno2 wrote:
Heishi wrote:
Chrno2 wrote:
Wait we actually have an anime dedicated to "Lunks" now?

Oh Japan never ceases to amaze.


The question remains: Will this show fulfill the desires and fantasies of those who love muscular women?


Are they out there?



I happen to be one of them. Cool
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reanimator





PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:39 pm Reply with quote
Any red blooded straight male would say that girls working out at a gym and having some muscle tone is hot.
As long as female body builder doesn't look like Mr. Olympia with boobs, then it's fine with me.
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Heishi



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:26 pm Reply with quote
reanimator wrote:
Any red blooded straight male would say that girls working out at a gym and having some muscle tone is hot.
As long as female body builder doesn't look like Mr. Olympia with boobs, then it's fine with me.


Well, being one of those non red blooded "straight males" that love seeing women look very "Mr Olympia", which has sadly, fallen out of the wayside. We don't see muscle women like that, nowadays.

Yes, I'm not ashamed to admit I love me some bulky female muscle, because hey, somebody has to.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:55 pm Reply with quote
Heishi wrote:
The question remains: Will this show fulfill the desires and fantasies of those who love muscular women?


Unless someone at Dogakobo flexes some muscle to override the character designs from the manga, then the simple answer is no.

The running joke is how the male trainer goes incredible hulk mode in an instant bursting his clothes more times than you have fingers in your body, to show an specific muscle group; but one of the girls does it only once WITHOUT showing any mass or muscle at all, only the clothes burst and that scene might be even beyond the one cour scope of this adaption.

My bet is that we might see more abs than in the manga (since they have become fashionable as of late thanks to AoT), but once again we will see girls pumping more weight than their slim body mass would allow.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:23 am Reply with quote
On the topic of "Are they out there?" Though there are certainly older examples, female muscle fetish made a memorable impact on the contemporary mainstream conscious in 2016, with Kabaneri's Yukina: https://youtu.be/wlEqbOok5wI?t=288

Just look over the comments on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODDUaFjofB4

Top comment: "yea forget lolis I'm into this now."

Generally I like soft (iM@S Kanako <3) but I can definitely go for this. Razz

And as for the show, I guess there may not be any... artwork... comparable to Wit's above linked, but as a fan of CGDCT, this should be fun as something rather substantially different from the norm.
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mangamuscle



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 2:21 am Reply with quote
nDroae wrote:
On the topic of "Are they out there?" Though there are certainly older examples, female muscle fetish made a memorable impact on the contemporary mainstream conscious in 2016


If you want to think of history, the first example of muscle girls as protagonists in an anime IMO is WannaBees. As for recent examples, here is a nice compilation (I would have removed a pair because of their square faces, but you get the idea):

RIDICULOUSLY RIPPED GIRLS IN ANIME

Honorable mention to Michelle K. Davis from Terra formars, which sadly did not get this treatment on the anime, but this is an official picture of her:

https://cdn.4archive.org/img/F5y5G4o.jpg

Same could be said about Darkness from Konosuba:

https://cdn.4archive.org/img/qNbJ8om.jpg

p.s. Albeit her appearance was brief, the barbarian girl from the last episodes of Goblin Slayer can't be left out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEO-MUVG8bM
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:37 am Reply with quote
How are they gonna attract shy otaku with this
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DangerMouse



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:47 pm Reply with quote
mangamuscle wrote:
My bet is that we might see more abs than in the manga (since they have become fashionable as of late thanks to AoT), but once again we will see girls pumping more weight than their slim body mass would allow.

That's true, that'd be good.

mangamuscle wrote:
Honorable mention to Michelle K. Davis from Terra formars, which sadly did not get this treatment on the anime, but this is an official picture of her:

https://cdn.4archive.org/img/F5y5G4o.jpg

Yeah!

nDroae wrote:
On the topic of "Are they out there?" Though there are certainly older examples, female muscle fetish made a memorable impact on the contemporary mainstream conscious in 2016, with Kabaneri's Yukina: https://youtu.be/wlEqbOok5wI?t=288

Yup, that was a breakout moment that was everywhere.
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KupoChris



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:12 pm Reply with quote
I wonder if they'll hire Reika Saiki to promote it like she did with uzamaid.

https://twitter.com/saikireika/status/1068522389414113285
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